The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-20
BRUISED EYES AND NOSES.
A Free and Easy Knock-Down Fight
Among Gypsies.

When gypsies start in for gore they gen.
orally get IL. There are several pairs Of
gypsies in the city at present what il
meant by gypsics in this instance are sew
eral itinerant mule and horse dealers.
They are the kind OF people who come
here from n distance, from away up in
Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri. They go
around buying mulcsand horses from farm
ems at low prices, and bring them down
here, and through other places in the
south, and sell them to countrymen mt u
good price, which IL generally much more
Than what they originally gave for them.
Within the past fcw days several OF these
gypsy stock dealers have been in Memphis
and the suburfS. They have brought
their stock TO tho sale stables from day to
day, and, Il is safe TO say, have lost nothing
by their sales.
Yesterday afternoon several Of them
thought to enjoy full night and day in
the city. Principal among them were
John Morgan, about Thirty years old, aud
well known around the precincts OF the
sale stables Of Cincinnati and Will. IN Riley,
a travelling horse trader of Wayne county,
Michigan, but WHO spends most oi his
time in Kentucky and makes frequent
visits Ia Cincinnati. With them are John
and Mike Riley, aged respectively twenty
six and nineteen years, whose original
trade was that Of tinsmiths in
Chicago, but who have become
infatuated with horse and mule flesh, aud
embarked in IL not without profit. accord
ing To The story they tell. Icslerdnyailer.
noon Morgan and the three Rileys took
IL on themselves 10 tank up considera-
bly ut various places, and finally got into
u SILICON on Monroe street, where several
other people had also gathered 20 get their
evening tod" Morgan and Riley. IL
seems, got into a controversy over some
Trivial matter, and the bar keeper. who,
having in view Ne good order OF his esiab.
lishmcni went from behind the bar 10
quiet them. and succeeded for the moment
in doing ~. Al Of the crowd vas the
worse oil for liquor, and ono OF the
hlcys began TO curse Morgan, and
the inst thing the bar keeper
knew general knock out was in progress.
lie rushed around aud enlrayon,d 10 sop
aratc them when tho IN iru crowd be.
came involved, and gD-as-yuu-plcasc
Eight took place. The Rilcys and Morrans
are all six.iootcr and powerful in build,
and every blow from them, either on one
another or a drunken outsider. brought
man 90 the floor. No weapons were
attemptcdto be used, hui the sialNarl gyp-
sips used their fists with telling effect.
Bloody noses, blackcncd eyes and bruised
checks were rapidly assuming shape when
Officer Wilder WIS attracted To the scene.
where hundred or inOrc citizens had
also gathered 10 see the fun. Every.
thing was in confusion, and the only
way Tor the officer to command the peace
WIS by n vigorous use vi his club Though
sluglc-handcd, he did excellent work, nnd
put the disturbing parties under arrest,
but not until he had drawn his revolver
and threatened to shoot the Indicators
down, despite the blows lac had showrrrd
upon diem. The ldlcys and Morgan were
ordered 10 the station, and though Vgor-
ously dissenting hy words ami III en-
stopping as u 10 Usist, wcW marched
ON at the point 81 the revolver.
When they reached Jefferson and
Second streets, John Riley and Morgan,
who had been qunuciing nll the way. VI.
tempted TO GIT At each other In the
scuile which cnsuud Mike Riley hrokctO
run. bet Sergeant llcdrick, who came up
nj the time, caught him. Then MORAN
/ turned and struck nj John Riley. Wilder
warned him 10 60 ON. but after 4 few paccs
| be- again turned mud aitsckcd Riley by
kicking him fearful blow In the stomach.
| II wis then that Wilder struck him over
| the head with his club. II was fearful
| blow, and Tire blood flowed freely from n
| scalp wound while the drunken fighter
wag showed along 10 the station.
I house. lie WIS found 10 be- quite
badly hurt, and a physician had to be-
called 10 dress his wound. Morgan and
John Riley were lockcd up ON charges Of
/ assault anil battery and disorlrrly con.
I duct, while the other two Mlcys were
| locked up on the charge Of drunk and die.
/ orderly. There were several others en-.
gagged IN the dlspcciul drunken fight.
but the parties llrkcd mp were nll thal
Wilder, who Used excellent Judgment,
could handle.
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